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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: vc-svn.el and "the underscore hack"
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:00:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d57xfn7d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eithue$2o1$1@sea.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Wed\, 08 Nov 2006 14\:23\:43 -0700")

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Wouldn't it be simpler and more reliable to change
>
> (when (file-readable-p (expand-file-name ".svn" FILE))
>   ;; refer to (expand-file-name ".svn" FILE) here
>   ...)
>
> to
>
> (let (svn-file)
>   (cond ((file-readable-p (setq svn-file (expand-file-name ".svn" FILE))))
> 	((file-readable-p (setq svn-file (expand-file-name "_svn" FILE))))
> 	(t (setq svn-file nil)))
>   (when svn-file
>     ;; refer to svn-file here
>     ...))
>
> and similarly for the file-directory-p and vc-insert-file calls?

Does either work under VMS where `expand-file-name' does a different
string manipulation than with Unix?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-09  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-17  6:54 [arit93@yahoo.com: vc-svn.el and "the underscore hack"] Richard Stallman
2006-10-31 14:57 ` AriT93
2006-11-01  2:14   ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-01 16:29   ` Fwd: vc-svn.el and "the underscore hack" Stefan Monnier
2006-11-01 21:02     ` AriT93
2006-11-02  4:43     ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-05 19:23     ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-07 17:23       ` AriT93
2006-11-08 16:58         ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-08 21:23         ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-11-08 21:32           ` AriT93
2006-11-09  1:00           ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-11-09  1:56         ` Chong Yidong
2006-11-09  2:01           ` David Kastrup
2006-11-09  2:06             ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-09  2:55               ` David Kastrup
2006-11-09  3:18           ` AriT93
2006-11-09 23:27           ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-09  3:18         ` Chong Yidong
2006-11-09  3:23           ` AriT93
2006-11-09 16:23           ` AriT93
     [not found] ` <17735.25421.968000.773096@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2006-11-01  2:14   ` [arit93@yahoo.com: vc-svn.el and "the underscore hack"] Richard Stallman

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